SQWATCHY: Button was pushed around 1:00pm EST TODAY (24/08)..Plan A this is to go live 6 hours prior to Iraq press conference tomorrow morning in Baghdad, which is scheduled for 9:30 am.....so that leaves a window now around 2:30am EST !!!! this should begin leaking.

Forex was stated to not show rates until 9 hours afterwords, per agreements. Should be a great day tomorrow. (Monday) Look for the dealers to adjust, that will be the first sign to everyone, they WILL get 15 mins notice.

And..we are on a media blackout with the announcements...we will not see or hear them until after the fact!.

Have a plan...and plan to act! No need to rush..be slow, and sure handed!

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wilbur grodan August 25, 2014 at 7:50am

TUESDAY has always been the most probable day of weekMarkets said to swing long GLD last THURSDAYWe are VERY bullish on gold right nowConnect the dots

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tsr August 25, 2014

For Your Information:- Parliament session started around 12 noon Iraq time ( 5 AM New York time). The following excerpt from alliraqnews.com

Baghdad (AIN) –The parliament session of Monday started.

Parliamentary source sated to AIN "The parliament session started where the Speaker, Saleem al-Jobouri to and in presence of 190 MPs." /End/

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tsr > for,Yah August 25, 2014

my adviser told me that the signatures were all done around June 6th and all we would be waiting for would be JUST the release of RV.

I was advised in June that it would be some time on or before Sept. 6-7 weekend.

I have been posting this info since June. Question for me now is - Is this an opportune time for the Powers That Be to release the RV.

I AM READY RIGHT NOW TO EXCHANGE.....Blessings

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ClassyONE August 24, 2014

Maybe Iraq may really have two sets of books. Do you think they will tell us the rate ahead of time? I seriously doubt it and no one will know till it actually hits. Then we will all be surprised!!!

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CME Opens Electronic Futures Trading After 4-Hour Delay

Posted by EXOGEN on August 25, 2014 at 12:39am

CME Opens Electronic Futures Trading After 4-Hour Delay

By Adam Haigh and Phoebe Sedgman Aug 24, 2014 11:37 PM ET

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange started electronic futures trading after a technical issue halted markets for as long as four hours, affecting contracts from U.S. stock indexes to Treasuries, oil and gold.

CME Group Inc. (CME), the world’s largest futures market, had suspended all of its Globex electronic-trading markets except for Malaysian equity-index derivatives, according to its website. Trading, which was scheduled to start at 5 p.m. Chicago time for some products, began at 9 p.m. All day and session orders, including so-called good-til-date orders with today’s trade date, will be canceled, the bourse said.

“Clients hate it,” said Evan Lucas, a Melbourne-based strategist at IG Ltd., a provider of equity-index, commodities and currencies trading, about the outage. “They couldn’t increase or more importantly shut positions, but there is nothing you can do.”

U.S. futures trading in everything from stocks to bonds, energy and agricultural products is dominated by the CME and InterContinental Exchange Inc., which last year bought the New York Stock Exchange. Dozens of commodities from corn to West Texas Intermediate crude change hands on the all-electronic Globex platform that begins on Sunday nights in the U.S., as well as currency, interest-rate and stock-index contracts.

The CME has mostly avoided the larger market structure breakdowns that plagued U.S. equity venues over the last five years, though a futures contract traded on its platform was identified by regulators as helping precipitate the flash crash in May 2010. In the stock market, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White has demanded infrastructure and procedural improvements as a way to restore investor confidence.

Open Interest

“We do a lot of futures, especially CME commodities, so it did affect some of our clients but we did not receive a lot of complaints as the volume was thin,” said Jackson Wong, Hong Kong-based vice president at Tanrich Securities Co., about today’s halt. “It would be a big deal if it happened during New York hours.”

Volume in the cash Treasuries market is picking up now CME has resumed futures trading, said John Gorman, head of dollar interest-rate trading for Asia and the Pacific at Nomura Holdings Inc. in Tokyo.

“The liquidity has been absolutely dreadful,” he said. “Both Eurodollar futures and note futures have been closed. Those two markets are very highly intertwined with the Treasury market. I can already see the screens populating with a bit more depth.”

CME Group said in a press release earlier this month that open interest across asset classes reached a record 103.4 million positions on Aug. 7. Average volume for August was 14 million contracts at that date, up 33 percent from the year-earlier period.

Hedging Strategies

Traders use futures to speculate on price direction in underlying assets and carry out hedging strategies. For instance, an investor who holds individual stocks or exchange-traded funds might sell a Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX) contract to protect against losses from broad market moves.

The CME is where investors trade the most WTI crude and Henry Hub natural gas contracts, the U.S. benchmarks for the fuel. About 500,000 crude contracts and 300,000 gas futures are traded on average through the bourse every day. Brent, the grade for more than half of the world’s oil, is largely traded on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange.

Asset classes where there is also a spot market, such as precious metals, are less affected when futures are halted, according to Jonathan Barratt, chief investment officer at Ayers Alliance Securities in Sydney. Investors can trade spot gold, silver, platinum and palladium in London while those in China, the world’s largest consumer and producer, can trade bullion on both the Shanghai Gold Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange.

Risk Transfer

“The biggest problem you might have is with some of the agricultural products because people rely on it quite heavily,” Barratt said by phone today before trading resumed. “You’re taking away a risk transfer mechanism that people rely on.”

For stock investors, the CME’s electronic venue enables the trading of futures on the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq 100 Index, as well as contracts on Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average and India’s CNX Nifty index. Among the most popular equity contracts is the so-called e-mini future on the S&P 500, which has seen about 1.5 million change hands daily on average in August.

The CME halted trading for some futures contracts for more than 90 minutes on April 8 due to “technical issues.” The error prevented futures and options transactions in products including corn, wheat, cattle and hogs. The Chicago-based company’s largest revenue-producing contracts, such as interest-rate and stock-index futures, weren’t affected.

To contact the reporters on this story: Adam Haigh in Sydney at ahaigh1@bloomberg.net; Phoebe Sedgman in Melbourne at psedgman2@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Sarah McDonald at smcdonald23@bloomberg.net John McCluskey

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dinardiva August 25, 2014

Looks like CME is up and running again with no change........... the glitch was really a glitch

Bold n Courageous August 25, 2014

Does it now reflect the TRN?

ClassyONE > Bold n Courageous August 25, 2014

Maybe that's the key shift for something happening on August 25, in the CL numerology report we rehashed.